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Plattsmouth Journal,Thursday, May 8, 1919

22 CASS
COUNTY BOYS DIED IN SERVICE

Some from Flu and Other
Diseases; Others Facing the Enemy on Battlefields of France

LIST OF THE DECEASED
ONES

Shows Four Plattsmouth Boys
Were Killed in Action and Three Died of Disease

From Monday’s Daily.

Lieut. D.L. Beal, who is located
in Omaha at the Rome hotel, and who has in hand the matter of
compiling a list of names of all Nebraska soldiers, sailors and
marines who were killed or died during the war, has written to the
Red Cross chapters in each of the counties over the state for a list
of all those from the county who gave their lives while in the
service, either through disease or from the shells of the enemy.

As a member of the local chapter
of Red Cross, Mrs. C.A. Rosencrans has furnished Lieut. Beal with the
desired list for Cass county, which shows that a total of twenty-two
of our fair youths paid the exacting price of warfare — some through
illness while in cantonments, some in overseas camps and others who
laid down their lives while facing the terrific gun fire of the
enemy.

Plattsmouth contributed seven of
her youths to this list of twenty-two within the confines of the
county. Four of these seven, Edward C. Ripple, Henry Hirz, Hugh
Kearnes and Robert Jacks, were killed in action, while the remaining
three, Matt A. Jirousek, George Kopischka and August Hesse succumbed
to the ravages of disease.

Herman Furrer, a former resident
of Eagle, died of influenza.

Edward M. Heeney, of Manley,
died of pneumania [sic].

Guy Frisbe, while on a furlough
in California near the station where he was located, was struck by a
taxicab and killed. Mr. Frisbe was a former Elmwood resident.

Jack Idimiller, also of Elmwood,
died in camp from spinal meningitis. Herold Marshall, of Weeping
Water, was killed in action, while Van Crew and Harold Hitchman, both
of whom were from the same place, died of disease.

Harry E. Johnson, of Murray,
died of influenza.

Bernard Roddy, one of the
old-time scholars of Mrs. Lottie Rosencrans, died of tuberculosis of
the bowels.

Paul Spence Ingram, of
Louisville, died of lobar pneumonia.

Claude and Frank Riggs and
Albert W. Vallery, all of Mynard, died of influenza.

Ralph Parcell and Archer Trudeau
of Alvo also succumbed to the same disease.

This makes a total of
twenty-two, only five of whom it will be noted, were killed in
combat.